Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buenos Aires, Nov. 5--Primo Carnera, former heavyweight champion, was signed today to meet Victorio Capolo, Argentina heavyweight for a 12-round bout at Independiente Stadium which seats...
Lord & Master Thyssen, with his wife and daughter, meanwhile faced Brazilian reporters in his suite aboard the German liner Caparcona. "I have relatives in Argentina and I am sailing on to see them" said he. "I need a rest. Reports that I left Germany because I feared an outbreak of violence are absolutely without foundation. I need a vacation as much as anyone else...
...River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing...
...only hitch was that the U. S. inquiry had given new courage to the minority members of Argentina's two-year-old munitions inquiry committee. The majority had already moved to quash the findings on the ground that the guilty officers who had been stationed as a munitions purchasing board in Europe had long since been dealt with in military and civil courts. Last week Minority Senator Mario Bravo uprose once again and began making charges, far worse than anything the U. S. Senate committee had aired...
...sadly disillusioned French girl packed her meagre belongings, said a bitter good-by to New York, took the first boat home. She had been in a Grade D .Shubert show. Its run was short. No one took much notice of the songs she sang. Basso Feodor Chaliapin and La Argentina, the dancer, were equally unfortunate on their first U. S. visits, but both had sensational comebacks. Last week luck had changed for Lucienne Boyer...